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If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

Ken Wilber

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Ken Wilber
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 31
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Oklahoma City
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Kenneth Earl Wilber II
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